The Bones of Love (a Last Responders Romance)
Megan Montgomery
Forensic anthropologist, Dr. Decca Crowley, is no stranger to death. Between traveling all over the state of Tennessee to study skeletal remains, responding to mass casualty events with her team, and sitting in bedside vigils as a death doula in her "time off," she's run herself ragged in her attempt to avoid living her own life. Putting in more hours meant not thinking about her love life. Or lack of one. Until now, it's been easy. Her good friend, Gus Smythe, has just graduated from Greek Orthodox seminary and in order to be ordained a priest, he must marry--or else serve his entire priesthood alone and celibate as a monk. For him, that's a fate distinctly worse than death. The ever-pragmatic and selfless Decca has a solution. Purely out of the goodness of her heart, she proposes a marriage-of-convenience. He needs a wife; she could definitely use someone to talk to (other than the 200 year-old skeleton she's piecing together on her dining room table.) But, she didn't really think he'd say yes. When the bride and groom catch feelings for each other, that could be the end of their cozy situation. But if they find the right framework—the bones of love—it could be their key to happiness instead.
Publication Year: 2024
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Score: 3/5
POV: Dual
Heat Level: 5.5/5
Tropes: Marriage of Convenience; Opposites Attract; Friends to Lovers; Slow Burn
Likes:
* I really liked the FMC. She was written to be fairly relatable even though I’m literally nothing like her. But how she treated her friends, processed things, etc just all made sense. She made sense.
* Once the spice started it was spicing! Well written
Dislikes:
* The MMC. My gosh was an annoying baby man. Like this guy was a fuck boy 10+ years ago, made a huge mistake, but let it affect his current budding relationship?? Idk in my opinion it was dumb and annoying. Rereading this probably won’t make sense but to me it was just annoying.
* the lack of communication. Sure they finally realize they’re shit communicators but to have been friends, like good friends, and then to be that bad at communicating it just didn’t make sense to me. It was pointless
* it was so wordy and felt like it dragged. I felt like this book could’ve been 200 pages shorter than what it was.
Overall this book was fine. The FMC I enjoyed the MMC I did not. I felt the story dragged and was way too long. Just a bunch of unnecessary story to make the story, if that makes sense.
I would never reread this and honestly I’m unsure if this author is for me if this is how her books are. I’ll sit on this.
3/5
0Although there were some stumbles, I really enjoyed and had fun with the series. This was because even if I didn't love everything, there were elements that made me continue reading, such as the friendships and an insight into the lives of death care workers.
I found it's very original and different to what I'm used to. I really never thought about death care workers in romance before and I found really interesting knowing more about the work, even if it's in fiction.
This was my favorite book of the series, which really surprised me because, it handles one of my less favorite subjects: religion.(I mean, this is a priest book, so what was i expecting, right? lol).
I'm glad that there are cw disclosing the heavy topics, so if you're reading this review, please check the cw before diving in.
P.S. Is it just me or does the guy on the cover look like Mutt from Schitt's Creek?
0I haven't read the first 2 books so both other couple were new to me, but grew on me super fast. I loved the relationships between all of the characters, especially our MCs, Gus & Decca. They are to die for!
The Bones of Love had me feeling a lot of feeling that I didn't think it would. Megan does an AMAZING job of touching on very touchy topics such as grief and loss of family members, jobs around the dead, and religion.
I fell in love with this book in the first few chapters and I already added the previous 2 books in the series to my tbr!
Thank you so much to The Author Agency & the author for the gifted book!
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